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Mosso: Cloud Computing for the Rest of Us
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on February 18, 2008
Outages aside, there's no doubt that the rise of web scale computing platforms, like Amazon's EC2 and S3 services, have lowered the barrier of entry for Internet startups. Going completely serverless would have been unheard of during the late-90s dot com boom, but new cloud computing platforms have made it possible for small companies to scale quickly, easily, efficiently, and cost...
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I Want a Real Blog Aggregator
via Nick Bradbury's Shared Items on NewsGator Online by (author unknown) on February 18, 2008
I love Google Reader. I love Friendfeed. I even like Plaxo Pulse. But here’s what I want: A one-stop blog aggregator that lets me do everything for everywhere in one place. I want integrated socialization, and especially threading and integrated commenting. And I think we can do it! Read on for a recipe for the perfect blog aggregator! (more…) Post from: Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat I Want...
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Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on February 17, 2008
On Friday, a massive outage occured at Amazon Web Services that generated a waveof negativity and criticism in blogopshere. Not long ago, Rackspace, one of the world's largest hosting companies, experienced a outage that resulted in a similar reaction. When the backbone collapses, so do our favorite services. This makesus mad. It makes us say things like: well, maybe we shouldn't be using...
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Ex-Apple Team To Launch Stealth Startup Fotonauts
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on February 18, 2008
A team of five former Apple software engineers, led by former Apple Exec Jean-Marie Hullot, have been working on a new stealth desktop/web photography focused startup called Fotonauts since late 2006. Sometime in the next couple of months, they’ll launch publicly. The company is based in Paris, France.Hullot, who worked with Steve Jobs at Apple in the 1980’s, left with him to serve as CTO of...
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It’s all in the simplicity
via Nick Bradbury's Shared Items on NewsGator Online by Steven Hodson on February 15, 2008
Both Michael Masnick [Techdirt] and Rob Hyndman posted today about the big discussion going on at the Mobile World Congress where they where trying to understand the success of the iPhone. With ideas to copy the success ranging from manipulating users in how their mobile platform experience was to exploring the neural networks to navigate a mobile phone interface.And these are supposedly smart...
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Building a Twitter Agent with Ruby and Rails
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 16, 2008
Dominiek ter Heide has put together a great tutorial that walks you through building a “Twitter agent” using Ruby, Rails and XMPP. For those who aren’t on Twitter yet, it’s a free micro-blogging cum “presence” information service that allows users to write 140 character messages that are supposed to represent their current state / feelings / location / etc. A Twitter agent, therefore,...
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Tip #5: Be Picky, but only about the right stuff
via ColoradoStartups.com by David Cohen on February 17, 2008
And just like that we’re at tip #5 in my top twelve startup tips from TechStars last summer. I’m shooting to pick up the pace and get them all done before TechStars starts again this summer.Tip #5 has to do with being picky, but with the important caveat that you should be picky about the big, scary, important things. For me, this list includes stuff like:1) What my company will do.2) Who my...
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Google Nixes FeedBurner’s “All Time” Stats
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on February 18, 2008
Google has made some bad decisions in the past, and doesn’t always handle its customers with white gloves. When the company launched Street Views maps without blurring out personally identifying information like faces and license plate numbers, I scratched my head. And when Google decided to get rid of its premium video services without letting its customers keep the videos they’d paid for,...
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